Pleasant View Volunteer Fire Department

Analysis

Pleasant View Volunteer Fire Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Pleasant View, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Pleasant View Volunteer Fire Department reported income of $1.8m and spending of $1.7m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.8m to $1.8m (-0.8%), an average of -0.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Pleasant View Volunteer Fire Department sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Anthropocene Alliance ($1.8m), Greenwood Volunteer Fire Company No 1 of Greenwood Delaware ($1.8m) and Uniontown Fire Department ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 25% and program service revenue 69% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $615k. At year end it held assets of $9.0m against liabilities of $3.3m, net assets of $5.7m. It reported 15 employees.